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US Senator Hawley blasts AI companies for 'theft' of copyrighted works

By Nick Robertson and Emma Whitford ( July 16, 2025, 22:25 GMT | Insight) -- Missouri Republican Senator Josh Hawley came down hard against the use of unlicensed creative works for AI training during a US Senate hearing today, calling the practice immoral and un-American despite recent court decisions finding that Meta Platforms and Anthropic's training was fair.  Criticism of AI companies' use of copyrighted works to train their models dominated a hearing before the US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism today. Subcommittee Chair Josh Hawley, Republican of Missouri, called the practice the “largest intellectual property theft in American history,” despite recent court decisions finding Meta Platforms and Anthropic’s training was fair....

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